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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
Happiest Life Traveling
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

America Enemies Get Hate
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

Show Blatant Both Call
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Common Beauty Corny Fades
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Because Fool Fools Love
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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Allow Fully Happen Life
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Dream Ever Fear Goes
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Be Humble Enough Humble Mystery
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
Concentration Demands Full Me
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I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
Because Communicate Difficult Easy
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Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Afraid Because Confused Coping
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When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Create Family First Foremost
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It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Boundaries Enforce Great Grown
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Begins Criticism Grammar Meanings
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Angels Demons Economists Everything
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

About Ask Critics Does
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Before Big Little Me
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

World Beautiful Terrible Thing
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
God Place Deep Gladness
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Doubt Ant Pants Faith
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt

Life Touch Trembling Felt
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Miracle Greater Sum Parts
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Faith Nothing Guide Grasps
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The life that touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Life Touch Good Life
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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Sin Grace Tragedy Comedy.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
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It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself that I can imagine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Marriage Bond Greater Found
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There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Deserve Taste Raspberries Cream
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

God Unending greatness Possible
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us

Word Eternal Final sense Life
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Above Alone Between Consciousness
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Easily He Mexican Sentimental
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Character Complacent Contemplate Even
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Breathing Involuntary Mortals Natural
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Against Characteristic Constant Continuity
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Also Attribute Feelings Guide
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

About Alone Another Brings
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Between Change Coming Constant
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Different Each Others Part
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Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Anything Does Ever Happen
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Got Hard Presence Secret
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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Actor Artists Because Believe
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Best Capable Good Good People
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I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

About Book Bought Couple
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